Highlanders vs Blues

[African Monkey]

Well done Highlanders, you gave it to us up front and deserved to win. Coltman and Lentjies were brilliant and hammered us at breakdown.

[sparky]

Get this, Ben Atiga is more than a year younger than Ma'a Nonu. Ben Atiga gave up Rugby about five years because of arthritis. Puts Ma'a's incredible longevity in a bit of context.

[Tim]

Well played Highlanders, big second half.

[Tim]

Those two intercepts really fucked us. Heads went down after Nock's.

[Stargazer]

Congrats Highlanders, well-deserved win. Great defence held against a dominant Blues' attack in the 1st half; the rest improved in the second half. Coltman and Frizell very good. Josh Ioane, Walden and BFA the best in the backline.

Blues let themselves down; didn't take their opportunities in the 1st half. Rieko and Nanai held under control by the Landers; Akira completely invisible after the first few minutes, but Nonu and Robinson were a threat all game. I think everything has been said about Parsons. Bit of a mixed bag.

[sparky]

Coltman was superb tonight. Coles and Harris shouldn't be complacent about making the RWC squad.

[nzzp]

@Tim yes.

Shit effort tonight. Very disappointed. We created opportunities but we're not good enough to take them. If the refs not good, we're struggling. Ah well, flush the dunny and take the bye

[kev]

Poor from Blues. Got dominated in 2nd half. They have only one guy competing at breakdown. Poor selections and coaching continue to let this team down. Backs can’t do anything with slow ball like that.

[Duluth]

Forwards were flat after the first 30mins. It seemed to be a tactic not to commit numbers and it didn’t work. We never recovered from the glut of possession the Highlanders had either side of half time

We need the bye week

Hopefully MacDonald rotates the pack more in the 2nd half of the season

[Tim]

@kev Dunno why Cowley-Tuioti is starting ahead of Goodhue. I'd have Scrafton off the bench too, if he's fit.

[Steven Harris]

And the Parsons project will get rolled out for another 2 years,got absolutely owned by Coltman this evening..Will not get any better,it’s time to go to the market and get a top level halfback ..2 really key positions and we are so off the pace In these areas it’s not funny..Tom Robinson may have have been caught out down the blindside,but he makes up for his other efforts in spades..probably done more in his short career than whole lot more that been fortunate enough to wear a Blues jersey.

[Tim]

@Duluth Atleast sub or rest Akira Ioane occasionally.

[Duluth]

@Tim said in Highlanders vs Blues:

@kev Dunno why Cowley-Tuioti is starting ahead of Goodhue. I'd have Scrafton off the bench too, if he's fit.

Scrafton is better than both of them. GCT should drop out of the 23

[kev]

@Tim we don’t seem to trust players. Thought guys looked tired. Other teams rotate players in and out. Keeping momentum.

[Jailbreak7]

@kev I thought Macca had done the right thing by rolling out an unchanged team. But shit yeah the guys looked out on their feet. Didn't have the hunger tonight.

[KiwiMurph]

@Tim said in Highlanders vs Blues:

@Duluth Atleast sub or rest Akira Ioane occasionally.

Give Sotutu a run.

[Bones]

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@Kirwan still an egg though. What was that about with Jantjies?

You mean Lentjes who the ref told to shut up earlier?

Haha that one. The one who got shoved by Reiko while just walking back to the scrum.

A nudge whilst both players were mouthing off.

Oh my mistake, Reiko isn't a dick then.

Says the guy with AfterDavid in his team...

What the fuck is this? What does Smith has to do with it?

The point being there are plenty of mouthy pricks in every team.

Wow great point. Thanks Cotton. I will never criticise any player again, as I'm sure there's other players who may have done the same thing. So enlightening.

[Duluth]

@kev said in Highlanders vs Blues:

we don’t seem to trust players

Which isn’t a surprise when the coach didn’t pick the squad

If he doesn’t rate guys like Moulds/Apisai then pick someone else next year

[Dice]

We were pretty bad and seemed real slow to the breakdown. Our pack looked lethargic, so the bye has come at the right time for us. A lot of players on high minutes.

Papali'i was our best player. He's starting to string the good games together.

[KiwiMurph]

@Bones said in Highlanders vs Blues:

@KiwiMurph said in Highlanders vs Blues:

@Bones said in Highlanders vs Blues:

@KiwiMurph said in Highlanders vs Blues:

@Bones said in Highlanders vs Blues:

@KiwiMurph said in Highlanders vs Blues:

@Bones said in Highlanders vs Blues:

@KiwiMurph said in Highlanders vs Blues:

@Bones said in Highlanders vs Blues:

@Kirwan still an egg though. What was that about with Jantjies?

You mean Lentjes who the ref told to shut up earlier?

Haha that one. The one who got shoved by Reiko while just walking back to the scrum.

A nudge whilst both players were mouthing off.

Oh my mistake, Reiko isn't a dick then.

Says the guy with AfterDavid in his team...

What the fuck is this? What does Smith has to do with it?

The point being there are plenty of mouthy pricks in every team.

Wow great point. Thanks Cotton. I will never criticise any player again, as I'm sure there's other players who may have done the same thing. So enlightening.

Enlightening you say. Says the guy who says the same thing about Rieko every week.